News-n-Views 27th Apr/3rd May

We gather weekly the most important Vaping news.

INTERNATIONAL REGULATION

DURBIN INTRODUCES BILL TO TAX VAPES LIKE CIGARETTES

Congressional Democrats have introduced a bill that would impose the first federal tax on vaping products, and increase other tobacco taxes for the first time in a decade.

NEW TAIPEI BECOMES FIRST CITY IN TAIWAN TO BAN SALE OF E-CIGARETTES

The New Taipei ordinance on the management of novel tobacco products prohibits the manufacture, importation, sale, display or advertising of vaping devices.

OPINIONS

BLOOMBERG BLASTED FOR USING BILLIONS TO BLOCK VACCINES FOR TOBACCO COMPANY WORKERS

Earlier this year, the government of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte came under intense fire for denying tobacco companies access to COVID-19 vaccines imported by the government.

THE KNOWLEDGE GAP OF A SMOKER

The right to information is a fundamental consumer value, may it be any form of product; the benefit to the consumer has to be at the heart of it.

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

SMOKERS, VEGETARIANS LESS VULNERABLE TO COVID-19 INFECTION:CSIR SURVEY

The survey has also revealed that people with blood group ‘O’ may be less susceptible to the virus.

HIGHER-NICOTINE VAPES SEEM BETTER AT HELPING SMOKERS QUIT CIGARETTES

A new study suggests that smokers given higher-nicotine vaping products consume fewer dangerous carcinogens through continued smoking compared with their peers given lower-strength vapes.

STORY OF THE WEEK

FDA COMMITS TO EVIDENCE-BASED ACTIONS AIMED AT SAVING LIVES AND PREVENTING FUTURE GENERATIONS OF SMOKERS

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it is committing to advancing two tobacco product standards to significantly reduce disease and death from using combusted tobacco products.